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THE R.U R A. L> NEW-VOKKER 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Eight persons were 
drowned in or near New York, July 18, 
and the toll of the midsummer Sunday 
casualties also includes one death by 
heat, another death in an automobile ac¬ 
cident, a dozen hurt in acciden s, a total 
of 44 accidents as reported to the police, 
six prostrations from the heat, 12 per¬ 
sons taken ill in the street, one attempt¬ 
ed suicide and five sudden deaths with no 
cause assigned. 
Four persons were drowned in Lake 
Michigan at Chicago, July 18, when two 
men and a girl made a heroic attempt to 
rescue another girl who had been drawn 
under the water by an undertow at the 
foot of Cornelia street. A crowd of per¬ 
sons on the beach heard the victims 
cries, but did not realize the danger of 
the party. 
A bomb was found, July 18, at Tren¬ 
ton. N. J., in a carload of coal consigned 
to the Cunard Steamship Company in 
New York. The car, over the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Railroad, had been damaged in 
transit from the coal region of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. When it reached the Morrisville 
yards it was decided to transfer the coal 
to another car. The coal had to pass 
down a chute and the bomb was seen as 
it slid along the iron way. 
The Federal Trade Commission opened 
its first meeting in Chicago, June 19, 
with a hearing of suggestions from rep¬ 
resentatives of the National _ Lumber 
Manufacturers’ Association relative to the 
increase of both domestic and foreign 
commerce. Government control of the 
production of lumber in the United 
States was urged by the National Lum¬ 
ber Manufacturers’ Association. Over¬ 
production, uncontrolled price cutting, 
decrease in the export trade due to the 
European war are some of the conditions 
blamed by II. II. bowman, president of 
the national association, for the present 
demoralized situation facing the manu¬ 
facturers of lumber. Mr. bowman de¬ 
scribed the condition of the lumber trade 
for the last eight years as having ‘‘been 
one of demoralization.” 
Eight deaths in New York, July 20, 
resulted from the heat Ambulance sur¬ 
geons attended about 80 cases of heat 
prostration. 
While examining a tree which had 
been struck by lightning, July 19, Au- 
gustine J. S. Bourdeau, of the Seventh 
Day Adventists Church, and Edwin An¬ 
drews, a boy of fourteen, were instantly 
killed by a second bolt striking practical¬ 
ly in the same spot. Marguerite Bour¬ 
deau, the nine-year-old daughter of the 
dead man, also was struck and though 
severely shocked and burned, there is 
hope for her recovery. The three were 
in the Administration Building of the 
Seventh Day Adventists, in Talcoma 
Park, Md., just over the District of Co¬ 
lumbia line, when the lightning struck a 
tree right in front. After the storm was 
over, as they thought, they went to look 
at the peculiar markings of the current 
on the tree. 
The Department of Justice, in inves¬ 
tigating at New York all passports ob¬ 
tained through State courts, arrested 
Harry Zelinka, a clothing importer, 
charged with conspiring to defraud the 
United States by procuring a passport 
for an alien on the representation that 
he was a naturalized citizen. Harold 
A. Content, Assistant United States Dis¬ 
trict Attorney, charged that on April 1 
Zelinka aided Alfred Bondy, an Austrian, 
and a representative of a German cotton 
firm in this country, to get an Ameri¬ 
can passport for Harold Green, a nat¬ 
uralized citizen. Zelinka, it is charged, 
vouched for the applicant’s naturaliza¬ 
tion. Bondy went to Germany on busi¬ 
ness, by way of Sweden and Denmark. 
That he did not travel through England 
or France or any of the belligerent coun¬ 
tries absolved him, it was said, from 
suspicions of espionage. 
A preliminary investigation at Phila¬ 
delphia, July 20, failed to determine the 
cause of the three fires which occurred 
on the battleship Oklahoma, now nearing 
completion at the yards of the New 
York Shipbuilding Company in Camden, 
N. J. Officials do not believe they were 
of incendiary origin. The blaze started 
in a magazine, or an ammunition hand¬ 
ling room and could not be extinguished 
until firemen had flooded these rooms. 
Until the water is pumped out again 
there is no chance of finding out what 
started the fire. The company does not 
believe that crossed electric light wires 
were the cause, but thinks it possible that 
there was spontaneous combustion among 
material used in the interior fittings of 
the ship. The damage was confined to 
the interior of the battleship. 
Mexico City was reoccupied by Zapa¬ 
tista forces on July 18. The occupation 
was without disorder or resistance of 
any kind, as all the Carranza forces un¬ 
der General Gonzales had left. Railroad 
communication with Vera Cruz has been 
suspended. The Zapata commander has 
appointed civil authorities, and there is 
every indication that order will be main¬ 
tained. 
A preliminary report on the Canadian 
armory bomb outrage, under investiga¬ 
tion at Washington as well as in Canada, 
was received, July 20, by the Department 
of Justice from the United States Dis¬ 
trict Attorney at Detroit. Secret Ser¬ 
vice agents hope to discover the perpe¬ 
trator, where he got his dynamite or 
other explosives and how he conveyed the 
explosive to Canada. 
Charles Taylor aged 11, of Chelsea, 
Mass., is held by the police of that city 
as a possible incendiary in connection 
with a fire which cost the lives of six per¬ 
sons, July 20. Places in Taylor’s own 
house and in the house next door were 
found to have been saturated with kero¬ 
sene in a similar way, as was the house 
which was burned. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Exports of 
American agricultural implements dur¬ 
ing the fiscal year 1915 totalled approx¬ 
imately $10,000,000, as against $40,600,- 
000 in the high record year, 1913; $21,- 
000,000 in 1903 and a yearly average of 
more than $29,000,000 for the last de¬ 
cade. This loss of trade fell most heav¬ 
ily upon sales to Europe, but there were 
also smaller though significant decreases 
in shipments to Argentina, Canada and 
various countries of Africa and other sec¬ 
tions of the world. Cuba and Siberia 
made gains. Australia barely held its 
own in the year’s trade, but this is a 
good showing in view of the fact that 
her wheat crop dropped from more than 
100,000.090 bushels in 1913 to 25,000,- 
000 bushels last year. The European 
war was doubtless the dominant factor 
in the great falling off in exports of agri¬ 
cultural implements. 
The Federal Government and the New 
England States have combined in an ef¬ 
fort to prevent the extinction of the lob¬ 
ster and to save a valuable fishing indus¬ 
try that is declining at an alarming rate. 
Maine has already enacted a strict licens¬ 
ing law, and at an important conference 
of delegates from Maine, New Hamp¬ 
shire. Massachusetts. Rhode Island, Con¬ 
necticut, New York and New Jersey 
that has just been concluded at Wood’s 
Hole, Mass., a definite program was 
adopted which, if possible, will be made 
the basis for uniform legislation in all 
the lobster States. This conference was 
called at the suggestion of the United 
States Bureau of Fisheries, the delegates 
being appointed by the several Governors. 
Dr. George P. Griding, late of Green- 
Doint, Brooklyn, and South Jamesport, 
L. I., created a trust fund of $5,000 in 
his will, filed for probate at Riverhead, 
July 20, with the income from which 
his “faithful old horse Frank” is to be 
maintained in comfort for the rest of his 
life. After Frank dies the $5,000 goes to 
the Jamesport Congregational Church, 
which is also to have the income from 
$10,000 more. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
International Apple Shippers’ Associa¬ 
tion. apple show and annual convention, 
Hotel Sherman, Chicago, August 4-6. 
California State Bee Keepers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, San Francisco, Aug. 5-7. 
Society for the Promotion of Agricul¬ 
tural Science, Berkeley, Cal.. Aug. 9-10. 
Highland Horse and Colt Show, High¬ 
land, Md., August 14. 
American Rose Society, San Francisco, 
Aug. 17-19. 
Society of American Florists, San 
Francisco, Aug. 17-20. 
American Gladiolus Society, Annual 
show, Newport, R. I., August 18-19, 
1915. 
Warren County Farmers’ Picnic, Bel- 
videre, N. J.. August 18. 
American Pomological Society, Berke¬ 
ley, Cal., Aug. 23-25. 
Cambridge Valley Fair, Cambridge, N. 
Y„ Aug. 23-27. 
Orleans County, N. Y., Fair, Albion, 
Sept. 8-11. 
New York State Fair. Syracuse, N. Y., 
September 13-18. 
Genesee County Fair, Batavia, X. Y., 
September 21-25. 
Trenton Inter-State Fair, Trenton, N. 
J., Sept. 27-Oct 2. 
Farmers’ National Congress, annual 
meeting, Omaha, Neb., September 28- 
October 1. 
International Dry Farming Congress, 
Denver Colo., Oct. 4-7. 
Chrysanthemum Society of America, 
annual show, Cleveland, Ohio, November 
10-14, 1915. Special show, San Francis¬ 
co, Cal. 
Berks Corn Contest, Reading, Pa., 
Dec. 24. 
Reading Pigeon and Poultry Associa¬ 
tion, annual .show, Dec. (5-11. 
Annual Corn and Grain Show, Tracy, 
Minn., January 3-8, 1916. 
July 19. Blairstown, N. J.. has a pop¬ 
ulation of 800, and in consequence the 
volume of business is not large. How¬ 
ever, small fruits and peaches bring good 
prices and are mostly sold to the stores. 
Strawberries bring 15c per qt., and I 
have never seen them lower than two 
quarts for 25c; these prices are to the 
grower. The same prices prevail for 
raspberries and blackberries. Peaches 
bring $1.50 and $1 per %-basket, never 
saw them lower in five years except once 
when they brought 50c, but were of very 
poor quality. Calves are bringing 10 to 
12c per pound. Our main business is 
apples, with small fruits on the side. 
I may say I have not found an entirely 
satisfactory method of handling the ap¬ 
ple crop. We ship to Philadelphia and 
place the entire crop in the hands of a 
commission house. While they are an old 
firm and have our confidence, I must say 
that in a year like last year I feel as if 
better prices could be realized. 
Blairstown, N. J. h. a. m. 
July 31, 191 ^ 
4-5—Cast 
threshers, 
8-lO-Plow Tractor 
Also tor running silo fillers, etc. 
Also for running 22x36 inch 
threshers, silo fillers, etc. 
Also for running 28x48 inch 
threshers, silo fillers, etc. 
C _ 
Also for running 32x54 i 
We announce cash prices for 
1916 on Avery Tractors as follows: 
3- Plow Tractor $ 760 5-Plow Tractor $1680 
4- Plow Tractor 1120 6-Plow Tractor 2145 
8-10-Plow Tractor $2475 
We also announce two new sizes of Tractors 
—a 2-Plow Tractor which will sell for not 
over $550 cash, and a 1-Plow Tractor to 
sell for $195 cash. 
7 Sizes — Fit Any Size Farm 
There’s a size Avery Tractor for any size farm. 7 
sizes. Fit any size farm. They are light-weight, dur¬ 
able, simple and powerful. Avery plows are the 
original "Self-Lift.” There are more Avery "Light- 
Weight” Tractors and “Self-Lift” Plows in success¬ 
ful operation than any other make. Introduced by 
"Sold-on-Approval” policy. Backed by strong 
warranties. 
Now Is the Time to Start 
Tractor Farming 
Now is the time to sell horses. Don’t feed 
your crops into idle surplus horses through 
the winter. Now is the time to get a tractor for 
doing your plowing, discing, harrowing, ensilage 
cutting, threshing and other work. It will save you 
expense and hard work and make you more money by 
raising bigger crops. Call on any Avery agent, branch 
house, jobber or home office, or write for complete 
Avery Tractor and Plow Catalog and get ALL the 
facta about Tractor Farming with an Avery 
"Light-Weight” Tractor and "Self-Lift” Plow, 
, etc. 
___j and larger 
threshers, etc. 
Thresh With an flvery Separator and Save Your Grain 
Avery Grain Threshers are built for use with Avery Tractors 
in all sizes from 22x36 to42x70 inch. Equipped with guaran¬ 
teed non-breakable razor-steel cylinder teeth. Proven by 
field tests threshing on canvas to be the best grain saving 
threshers built. Every one is given a running test at the 
factory before it leaves which insures satisfactory results 
from the start. Backed by the strongest warranties ever 
given on a threshing machine. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
flvery Co. 4650 Iowa St. 
Peoria, Illinois 
—i 
Avery ‘ Yellow-Fellow 
Grain-Saver” 
Separator 
Special Avery 
Tractor Announcement 
Safe silage cutter 
Then you don’t have to wait for the custom-worker but you cut your corn when 
It is ready. Coarse or fine; fast or slow. Throws and blows and puts the silage 
into the highest silo. It is safe, too. Automatic safety yoke makes accidents 
impossible to operator. Steel plate case, solid disc, steel 
base and strong construction. Three bearings, rocking 
force-feed rolls, straight knives, (easy to keep keen) 
1 .... T a. ...1__Ci-rorl fnr ^ 1 / 
r- iorce-ieea rons, suciigiii, k.iuvmjs, ^ 
and sharpener. It takes very little power. Sized for 334 
h. p. up. Sold at a price you want to pay. 
Distributing houses everywhere 
SWAYNE, ROBINSON & CO., 210 Main St., Richmond, Ind. 
Write today We aUo make the "MONEY MAKER” Hay Halers 
DEYO-MACEY SALES CO. 
Distributors for New York State 
- 223 Washington St., Binghamton, New York 
/A DEYO ENGINE 6 LE 
and a “Money Maker” 
SAFE SILAGE GUTTER 
Will Prove Real Money Makers for You 
With a Deyo Engine and a “Money 
Maker” Silo Filler you can fill th 
highest silo with ease and dispatch. 
Read Swayne, Robinson & Co.’s advertisement right above this for information about the Silo Filler. They 
are the manufacturers and we have the sale down in this part of the country. You can take our word for it that 
NO BETTER CUTTER AND FILLER WAS EVER BUILT 
Nor was there ever made, at any price, a more perfect model, easier to run, 
stronger, more substantial engine, that would give such effective service, so 
much power, with so little gasoline, than the Deyo Portable Engine. Sizes 5 to 20 H.P. 
8®“ Write TODAY for full illustrated descriptive booklet “^0 
DEYO-MACEY SALES COMPANY, 24 Washington St., BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 
BARGAINS 
ENSILAGE CUTTERS 
WITH 
EXCELSIOR ENGINES 
SILO filling time will soon be here. We have 
a special proposition on an Excelsior engine and 
cutter with blower. We have only a few cutters 
that we are going to offer at this special price, 
and the lucky man who acts quickly is going to 
have one of these on a money saving proposi¬ 
tion. You know about the Excelsior engines. 
They are the big mone-maker and labor-saver on 
a farm. Get a catalog of both the cutter and 
engine. Tell us the size farm you have. Tell 
us when you are ready to buy and receive by 
return mail our proposition to you, but do not 
delay. Act quickly. 
R. CONSOLIDATED GASOLINE ENGINE CO., 
202 Fulton Street, New York City. 
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN 
Earning $30 to $60 every week taking orders for our 
“18 in 1" Hundi-Tool. An Automatic Lifting and 
Pulling Jack, Fence Stretcher, Splicer and Mender, 
Post and Stump Puller, Tire Tool, Press, Vise, Hoist, 
Cable Maker, Wrench, etc. Saves cos to f$lf>0 worth ol 
tools. Control this new business! n your locality. Spare 
time or permanent work. Demonstrator free* Cred¬ 
it given. Ask for PaoiAry Agenov Offer. 
BENEFIEL C0.» 311 G Industrial Bldg., bdiinapolis, lad. 
For Two New Yearly Subscriptions 
or Twenty 10-Week Trial Sub¬ 
scriptions. 
FARM TOOL AND KNIFE SETS 
Cocobolo Handle, 3% in. long; brass 
lining and rivets; German silver bolster; 
set contains one Knife, 3% in. blade; 
one Chisel, 3^4 in-; large Screw Driver, 
3% in., and small Screw Driver, 2% in.; 
double and single Cut File, 3% in.; one 
Saw, 3% in., and one Combination 
Scratch Awl, Punch or Reamer; all 
made from best Tool Steel. One tool 
can be immediately substituted for an¬ 
other—and each tool is firmly set in the 
handle. Each kit is enclosed in strong 
Russet Leather Pouch, which can be eas¬ 
ily carried in pocket. Every farm home 
should have one of these sets. 
The Rural New-Yorker, 333 W, 30th St., N. Y 
